Michael Huemer writes that if seven friends at the bar decide by a vote of 6 to 1 that you should pay for everyone’s drinks, you are not obligated to pay despite the fact that you’ve been out voted. There is indeed a flavor of ad populum fallacy in […]

I disagree so much with Jason Brennan’s post that I don’t know where to begin, and certainly I can’t put it all here. The US has provided for many years, at great cost and as an international public good, national defense to a great number of countries in the world. […]

The right of self-determination, despite the stirring rhetoric of its advocates, is profoundly illiberal. It is not a right against a state but a right to a state. It is unconcerned with the legal and moral rights of individuals but with asserting a new sphere of political power –often more oppressive than the one left […]